Count Gervase of Northumberland

Count Gervase of Northumberland (1120-) was the count of Northumberland under the Kingdom of England.

Biography
Gervase was born in 1120 to the House of Blois, a dynasty of Catholic Normans. He was the illegitimate son of Stephen of Blois and an unknown woman, and he was raised in the Kingdom of England. In December of 1135 he was given the County of Northumberland by his father two days after he was elected as king by the people of London, and he gained a large fief.